Hi all, Effective altruism has given a lot of attention to ethics, and in particular suffering reduction. However, nobody seems to have a clear definition for what suffering actually is , or what moral value is . The implicit assumptions seem to be: We (as individuals and as a community)...
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I have a project that I want to run by the community. A while ago, Holden Karnofsky declared that the Open Philanthropy Project is dedicated to “hits-based giving” , a framework that accepts “philanthropic risk” where 90% of grants have zero impact but the number of grants that do...
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To advance the goal of viewpoint diversity within the EA movement, I requested that a friend of mine, "Henry", respond to HaydnBelfield 's recent post President Trump as a Global Catastrophic Risk . I'm grateful that Henry wrote an extended reply. Henry took a while on his response, and as a result,...
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Suppose that Alice is trying to figure out how to do the most good with her donation of $1,000 this giving season, and can spend various kinds of resources to improve her decision. Unfortunately, many investments that could improve the decision quality would impose costs that are large relative to...
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*By Kerry Vaughan* ( cross-posted from effectivealtruism.org ) Note: This post should not be taken as an endorsement of neoliberal ideas or policies. Instead, the post is intended to be a case study of how the neoliberals built an influencial intellectual movement over a relatively short perior of time. The...
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The Centre for Effective Altruism has begun its 2016 fundraising round. We’ve put together a document that summarises our activities, impact and mistakes in 2016, and plans for 2017. You can read it here (there’s an option to download it as a PDF file); we’ve also reproduced the executive summary...
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Overview The CEA team has started planning the EAG 2017 conferences. After considering the lessons from EA Global 2016 , as well as community feedback and survey results, we are planning to have three EA Global Events this year. The locations will be: Boston / Cambridge, MA - in May...
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In the lead-up to the December giving season, we asked some of the staff at The Centre for Effective Altruism where they're planning to donate this year. This is something GiveWell have done before, and we hope it's a useful resource for others thinking about donating. Read the whole post...
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Posted on behalf of the research team at the Centre for Effective Altruism The effective altruism community has surfaced a number of important ideas, identified existing research which is relevant to decisions, and in some cases pursued its own valuable research. Although there is a vast amount yet to learn,...
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Cross posted from my blog , but it makes more sense being here. This is quite long for the forum, at 5,500 words, so if it's too long I'd appreciate if someone told me what I'd need to cut it down to and I'll provide an edit or something. Abstract I’ve...
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